Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 632786, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/632786
Research Article

Developing Prognostic Systems of Cancer Patients by Ensemble Clustering

Dechang Chen,1 Kai Xing,2 Donald Henson,3 Li Sheng,4 Arnold M. Schwartz,5 and Xiuzhen Cheng2

1Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
2Department of Computer Science, The George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA
3The George Washington University Cancer Institute, The George Washington University, Washington DC 20037, USA
4Department of Mathematics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
5Department of Pathology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC 20037, USA

Received 7 January 2009; Accepted 27 March 2009

Academic Editor: Zhenqiu Liu

Copyright © 2009 Dechang Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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